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MLB presence in Mexico goes beyond just hosting another regular-season series 04/26/2024 02:51pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� When the Houston Astros take on the Colorado Rockies this weekend, it will be the seventh regular-season series played in Mexico. Major League Baseball's presence in the country, however, goes far beyond that. Mexico became one of only six countries in the world with an MLB offi A ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care also would bar advocacy for kids' social transitions 04/26/2024 02:34pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� A proposed ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors also would bar state employees from promoting it ��� or even children's social transitioning. Teachers and social workers who support LGBTQ+ rights worry that they could be disciplined or fired for helping kids who a Congress just passed sweeping foreign aid legislation. Now what? 04/26/2024 02:15pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at��Today on the Hill. Lawmakers return this week after passing a historic $95 billion foreign aid package that was in doubt for months, even as many of its members worried that "the world is on fi Berkshire Hathaway's real estate firm to pay $250 million to settle real estate commission lawsuits 04/26/2024 02:09pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A real estate company owned by Warren Buffett���s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay $250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide claiming that longstanding practices by real estate brokerages forced U.S. homeowners to pay artificially inflated broker commissions when they sold James, Lakers facing elimination Saturday. Magic, Pelicans and Heat seek home wins 04/26/2024 02:05pm • Nikola Jokic moved LeBron James out of the way as they battled for a rebound, grabbed the ball, got fouled and scored off the putback. And all James could do was turn his palms skyward, as if to ask ���what else can I do?��� That sequence in the third quarter of Game 3 of the first-round NBA playoff Journalists sign manifesto in defense of Spanish PM and wife, criticize right-wing media, parties 04/26/2024 01:45pm • MADRID (AP) ��� Thousands of Spanish journalists came out Friday in support of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro S��nchez and his wife following S��nchez���s announcement that he was considering his future as premier after a court opened preliminary proceedings against his wife on corruption allegation United Methodists endorse change that could give regions more say on LGBTQ and other issues 04/26/2024 11:23am • United Methodist delegates have overwhelmingly endorsed a constitutional amendment seen by advocates as a way of defusing debates over the role of LGBTQ people in the church by giving rule-making autonomy to each region of the international church. Delegates voted 586-164 on Thursday for the ���regi European soccer leagues insist they have no plans for games in the US. A lawsuit could change that 04/26/2024 11:07am • GENEVA (AP) ��� Leaders of top European soccer leagues say they have no plans to take games to the United States, though acknowledged that could change pending a lawsuit in Manhattan. FIFA has shifted its long-time policy of blocking domestic league games being played on the territory of another mem Decency agenda, affordable housing package among bills signed into law in Maryland 04/26/2024 11:06am • Before Maryland���s 90-day legislative session began in January, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones urged not only her colleagues, but also the general public, to simply be more decent with each other. During the session, the Baltimore County Democrat presented a ���decency agenda,��� a package of f The protests over the Israel-Hamas war put a spotlight on college endowments 04/26/2024 10:51am • ���Divest from death��� read the bubble letters written in chalk on the sidewalk on Tuesday outside of The New School in New York City. The slogan articulates one of the demands of the antiwar protests on campuses which call on colleges or universities to divest their endowments from companies prof US probes whether Tesla Autopilot recall did enough to make sure drivers pay attention 04/26/2024 10:30am • DETROIT (AP) ��� The U.S. government's auto safety agency is investigating whether last year's recall of Tesla's Autopilot driving system did enough to make sure drivers pay attention to the road. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents posted on its website Friday that Scotland's under-pressure leader insists he won't resign before crunch confidence vote next week 04/26/2024 10:21am • LONDON (AP) ��� Scotland's leader insisted Friday that he won't be resigning as he fights for his political survival amid the fallout of his decision to pull the plug on a three-year power-sharing agreement that has made his Scottish National Party a minority government. The pressure on First Minist Sports on TV for April 27 - 28 04/26/2024 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Saturday, April 27 AUTO RACING 8:30 a.m. CBSSN ��� FIA Formula E: The Monaco EPrix, Monaco 10:30 a.m. FS1 ��� NASCAR Cup Series: Qualifying, Dover Motor Speedway, Dover, Del. Noon CBS ��� FIA Formula E: The Monaco EPrix, Monaco 1:30 p.m Sports on TV for April 29 - May 5 04/26/2024 10:00am • Adv27 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, April 29 MLB BASEBALL 7:30 p.m. FS1 ��� Minnesota at Chicago White Sox NBA BASKETBALL TBA TBA ��� Western Conference First Round Playoff: Oklahoma City at New Orleans, Game 4 7:30 p.m. TNT ��� Eastern Conference First Roun USDA tells producers to reduce salmonella in certain frozen chicken products 04/26/2024 09:46am • Poultry producers will be required to bring salmonella bacteria in certain chicken products to very low levels to help prevent food poisoning under a final rule issued Friday by U.S. agriculture officials. When the regulation takes effect in 2025, salmonella will be considered an adulterant ��� a c